Antibiotics ‘linked to childhood obesity’
Source: BBC NEWS Young children who are given repeated courses of antibiotics are at greater risk than those who use fewer drugs of becoming obese, US researchers say. The JAMA […]
Antibiotics 'linked to childhood obesity'
Source: BBC NEWS Young children who are given repeated courses of antibiotics are at greater risk than those who use fewer drugs of becoming obese, US researchers say. The JAMA […]
Afghan Girls Are Choosing to Dress as Boys, and the Reason is Heartbreaking
Mic.com: by Marcie Bianco — For the bacha posh of Afghanistan, life is an open secret. From the Dari language, bacha posh translates as a female cross-dresser, a girl “dressed like a boy.” It also represents a small community of girls who pass as boys in Afghanistan, a country “that the U.N. says is theworst in the world to […]
Vatican Arrests Ex-Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski on Pedophilia Charges
Source: NBC VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Tuesday arrested a former archbishop accused of paying for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic, […]
Muhammad, Israel’s most popular baby name, omitted from official list
Source: The Times of Isreal Arab names ignored in Population and Immigration Authority yearly statement, despite significant share in population Muhammad, not Yosef, topped the list of most popular name […]
Teaching the Children: Sharp Ideological Differences
Wide Gaps over Teaching Faith, Tolerance, Obedience As the public grows more politically polarized, differences between conservatives and liberals extend their long reach even to opinions about which qualities are […]
Does telling students to respect each other do more harm than good?
theguardian: by David Birch — As someone who teaches philosophy in schools, the biggest problem in my lessons, besides blanket indifference, is pupils not giving each other the space to speak. They interrupt and shout over each other, tell one another to shut up or deride ideas with laughter. This […]
469 Gaza children killed, over 370,000 need ‘psychosocial aid’ – UNICEF
Epigraph: At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?” He called a little child to him, and placed […]
How Religion Affects Children’s Judgment of What Is Real and What Is Pretend
Huff Post: by Kathleen Corriveau — Some media reports about our research have said, on the basis of these results, that religious children cannot tell fact from fiction. We doubt such a conclusion is warranted. Our interpretation is different. Religious children are encouraged to think that miracles are possible — […]
Kids today have a lot less freedom than their parents did.
Slate.com: What were you allowed to do when you were a kid? In July, South Carolina mother Debra Harrell was arrested for allowing her 9-year-old daughter to play in the park unattended while she was at work. Harrell’s arrest prompted outrage, but also an outpouring of nostalgia, as indignant readers remembered activities […]
Gaza: how international law could work to punish war crimes
Source: The Guardian UK By Geoffrey Robertson The security council will be vetoed, but now that Palestine is a state there’s another route to justice For three weeks, the world has […]
The Guardian’s view on the killing of children in Gaza
theguardian: Editorial — Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, five, sits in a classroom where her family of seven now lives, at a UN school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But […]
Palestinian children tortured, used as shields by Israel: U.N.
GENEVA (Reuters) – A United Nations human rights body accused Israeli forces on Thursday of mistreating Palestinian children, including by torturing those in custody and using others as human shields. […]
Children Exposed To Religion Have Difficulty Distinguishing Fact From Fiction, Study Finds
Young children who are exposed to religion have a hard time differentiating between fact and fiction, according to a new study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science. READ MORE…
30 Magical Photos Of Children Playing Around The World
boredpanda — No matter their cultural background, no matter their economic situation, kids will always find imaginative ways to have fun. Their wild imaginations and magical childhood moments, when captured on camera by talented photographers, can make for truly wonderful photos. These 33 images we collected will prove that childhood […]
What It’s Like To Be A Third Culture Kid
thoughtcatalog.com: by Em Webster — You were raised in a different country than your parents. You have several nationalities by blood and another by birth. You have more than one passport and you identify with multiple cultures. You speak in numerous languages and you know phrases in many more. You’re […]
An 8 year old lays a foundation brick of Bait ul Mubarak along with Hazrat Khalifa tul Masih V
Report: Mohammad Haroon, UK Adnan Ahmad Chaudhary is one of the lucky children who had an opportunity to lay one of the foundation bricks of Bait ul Mubarak in Wiesbaden […]
Tony Abbott allocates big money for God in schools…
Global Post: The Australian government’s slash and burn approach to fiscal management doesn’t appear to have stretched to the God Squad. The right-wing conservatives have so far announced cuts to […]
Bodies of 800 babies, long-dead, found in septic tank at former Irish home for unwed mothers
The Washington Post: by Terrence Mccoy — In a town in western Ireland, where castle ruins pepper green landscapes, there’s a six-foot stone wall that once surrounded a place called the Home. Between 1925 and 1961, thousands of “fallen women” and their “illegitimate” children passed through the Home, run by the Bon […]
Faith Based Approach to the Bullying Crisis
By Fozia Khawaja, Edmonton A unique Interfaith Symposium held by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association Edmonton, Canada It is hard to believe that faith can provide solutions to the bullying […]